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Gut bacteria and necrotizing enterocolitis: cause or effect?

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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 332-333

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.04.005

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necrotising enterocolitis; preterm; gut microbiome; metagenomics

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Development of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is considered to be dependent on the bacterial colonisation of the gut. With little concordance between published data and a recent study failing to detect a common strain in infants with NEC, more questions than answers are arising about our understanding of this complex disease.

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